Creative Europe MEDIA
Training Guide
This site provides information on training and mentoring courses which are currently receiving support from Creative Europe MEDIA.
Training programmes
Location — Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg. Denmark
On the 3D Character Animation course participants will be taught by active animation professionals how to animate in Autodesk Maya through a series of lectures, assignments and mini-productions of increasing complexity in the field of 3D character animation, from concept to polish.
- Animation
- Production
APostLab offers workshops, training and mentoring for producers and post-production supervisors with the aim to increase understanding and appreciation of post-production management.
- Co-production
- Management & financing
- Post-production
Location — Rue Francoeur 6, Paris, France
The ATELIER LUDWIGSBURG-PARIS is a one-year full-time continuous training program to enhance competitiveness of the European film industry. The program is organized by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and La Fémis in Paris.
Location — Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin, Germany
Berlinale Talents is the Berlin International Film Festival’s talent development programme for 200 emerging filmmakers and series creators from all over the worldthat explores the how and why of movie making.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Post-production
- Production
- Series
CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels. CARTOON’s remit is to support the animation industry by organising several types of events throughout the year dedicated to animation professionals.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Company development
- Co-production
- Management & financing
- Production
Location — Online and in Łodz, Poland (3rd module in 2022)
The CEE Animation Workshop is a year-long project development and producer skills advancement training program for European film professionals working in animation.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Company development
- Co-production
- Management & financing
- Post-production
- Production
- Series
Location — Module 1: Serbia, Novi Sad Modul 3: Italy, Trieste
Exclusive training program for female-identifying documentary filmmakers who are seeking support to develop their films and professional skills. CIRCLE is designed both for talented directors and producers who are in the process of developing their first feature-length documentary, as well as the more experienced authors, who will be given the opportunity to further improve their skills and develop their projects.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Company development
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Production
Location — Flæsketorvet 60, 1711 Copenhagen V, Denmark
CPH:LAB is CPH:DOX’s talent development programme that encourages creative risk-taking, facilitates collaboration across borders and business sectors, and supports visionaries to push the existing boundaries of documentary filmmaking.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Production
Location — Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg. Denmark
On the Creative Simulation Technologies course, participants will learn how to master the art and science of simulations in the Houdini-certified, full-time course taught by active specialists from the VFX industry. Topics include fluid simulations, rigid body work, Pyro dynamics, GPU rendering, and interactive, real-time graphics.
- Animation
- Post-production
- Production
Location — LA POUDRIERE, Bourg les Valence, France
"Developing an Animated TV Special and TV Series: scriptwriting and concept development" is aimed at developing audiovisual projects for young audiences.
- Animation
- Series
Location — Univerzitní 225, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
dok.incubator is an 8-month-long workshop for high-quality documentary films in the rough cut stage, projects with the ambition to target a wide European audience and US distribution.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Documentary
- Post-production
- Production
A five-days immersive audience-focused workshop exploring 360º film marketing by gaining insight about the classic tools and the latest trends in Digital PR, social media management, digital marketing and Audience building.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Documentary
- Series
A year long programme focused on three intensive weeks featuring professional development through working on the development of fiction, documentary and TV series projects.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Company development
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Production
- Series
PUENTES Europe - Latin America Co-Production Workshop is a project-based year-long training programme including two 5-day residential workshops and a market module at Ventana Sur.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Company development
- Co-production
- Management & financing
Location — Luxembourg
An intensive four day workshop event for independent producers with a solid track record and international experience reinforcing their managerial and financial capacity to compete successfully in European and global markets and to run sustainable companies.
- Animation
- Company development
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Series
Location — Jihlava, Czech Republic / Berlin, Germany
EMERGING PRODUCERS is a training programme designed for the up-and-coming producers of documentary films in Europe. The programme facilitates personal and professional skills development, with a special emphasis put on the role of producers in today’s film industry environment. It focuses on promoting talented European producers, introducing them to the international film market, and on creating a new network of film professionals with the aim to increase the potential of European co-productions.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
- Production
ESoDoc - European Social Documentary is an 8-month long training initiative for media professionals who want to improve their storytelling and co-creative skills, to broaden the potential of their documentary and new media project to gain access to a larger market.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Production
- Series
ESSENTIAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK (ELF) is a long-running training series featuring residential workshops, online courses (eTraining) and from 2022 on, compact online seminars. The training equips audiovisual professionals with crucial skills and competences with an emphasis on legal and business aspects. The training activities offer relevant topics, hands-on information, acclaimed experts and valuable networking, employing a variety of formats and methodologies.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Company development
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Production
- Series
Location — 10 rue des Poissonceaux 59800 LILLE - FRANCE
Eureka Series is an intensive three-month training course for twelve emerging writers and producers of television drama series from all over Europe. Delivered in partnership with La Fémis, it is an initiative created by the Series Mania Institute to train professionals in the rapidly changing TV series industry, with a strong focus on European collaboration.
Location — Various locations
EURODOC is an observatory of, and an in depth training program in creative documentary production. Today, EURODOC is a strong and active network of more than 1,300 members from 60 countries worldwide.
- Company development
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Production
Location — Goldberg Studios, Munich, Germany
From immersive storytelling to development, from ideation to prototyping to production and distribution – pick your opportunity that meets best your – or your project‘s – needs and join us online and on-site in Munich and Leipzig.
- Production
- VR/XR
Location — Online, Zoom
This 3-day lab is for professionals from all creative and artistic backgrounds, who are interested in expanding, updating and deepen their knowledge in the field of immersive storytelling. We give you an overview of the state of the art, talk about important award-winning experiences and ground-breaking experiments, and invite mentors to share their expertise and knowledge.
Location — Leipzig
Whether narrative, or industrial - no matter what industry you or your company are developing for, we all face the same challenges: the paradigm shift from frame to world, from square to sphere, from linear to interactive, and from creator-perspective to audience-/customer centricity.
In our Prototyping Lab, we work across disciplines and industries, focusing on production processes, business models, scalability and distribution. Together we work on ideas for the medium and the markets of the future.
Location — Germany
The European Showrunner Programme (ESP) is truly unique in its content and scope.
- Management & financing
- Series
Do you have an idea for a documentary project that is in development or early production stage? Make sure that your synopsis, trailer, and presentation skills gain the attention of the most demanding decision-makers and succeed internationally.
Location — To Be Announced
The Aim of eQuinoxe Europe is to support the development and production potential of strong, culturally and linguistically diverse screenplays for an international audience.
LIM - Less Is More - training action was launched in 2016. Created by Le Groupe Ouest (France) and its Romanian partners (Control N and TIFF), with the support of its founding partners, Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Belgium) and Krakow Festival Film Office (Poland), LIM is European in essence.
With the perfect mix of workshops, webinars, pitches and extensive networking opportunities, the prestigious Masterschool is a one-stop-shop for non-fiction projects of all media looking for a boost in the European market.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Management & financing
- Production
- Series
MIDPOINT Feature Launch is project, script and skills development program with networking platform for directorial debuts or second features. The core is dedicated to 9 teams of writer and/or director and also to 3 aspiring script consultants who follow the whole script development process.
- Company development
- Co-production
MIDPOINT Series Launch is as an “idea-to-market” project and skills development program spanning over 7 months. The program is dedicated to 9 teams of writer/s and producer/s, potentially a director, with long-form series projects in development and also 3 development executive participants (DEs) who follow the whole development training.
- Co-production
- Series
NEXT STEPS is a training series designed specifically to diversify European audiovisual companies and help them adopt the opportunities of digitization and master a cultural shift within by tackling the underrepresentation of marginalized groups.
- Company development
- Management & financing
SERIAL EYES, Europe’s premier postgraduate training programme in serials development, prepares the next generation of European TV writers and emerging showrunners to bring 1st-class serialized storytelling to TV screens across the continent and beyond.
Location — Online Course
There is plentiful offer across Europe dedicated to green producing, however, to get to carbon zero as an industry we need to apply these standards to every aspect of our industry and that means looking at all the businesses and sectors operating within it. No film/TV series will be truly carbon zero until the businesses and people involved across the whole process and value chain are operating sustainably.
- Company development
- Co-production
- Documentary
- Production
- Series
Strengthening independent producers, ACE Producers uses the power of the ACE Network’s collective knowledge to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities in an ever-changing industry.
- Animation
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
- Management & financing
- Production
- Series
Ties That Bind brings together Asian and European producers with feature film projects and related professionals during two workshops, guided by top-level Asian and European industry professionals.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
- Production
Script development programme for writer/directors or teams of writer and director with a fiction feature film script at an early stage of development. Throughout the year the projects, which in general begin the programme in a treatment stage, are developed through the enriching experience of sharing this creative stage of the writing process with the other filmmakers in the group.
FeatureLab focuses on artistic and creative aspects as well as on production and promotion strategies in the development of 1st and 2nd feature films.
- Audience development, marketing, distribution & exhibition
- Co-production
Location — Sitges
Green Film Lab aims to train European film professionals on green practices in film production, how to apply a green protocol, and get a certification.
- Company development
- Production
ScriptLab – story editing is hands-on training for film professionals who want to work with writers and directors in the development stage of their fiction feature film projects. The aim of the programme is to provide insight into the development process of a feature film – focusing on the early scriptwriting stage.
SeriesLab is aimed at developing innovative and high-profile international TV series projects and stands out for involving all the main players involved in TV series production – scriptwriters, producers, and TV broadcasters – and for offering a close link between the scriptwriting process and the TV industry.
The programme provides the participants with an intensive 5-month career development training, plus a final presentation in one of the main European TV markets in 2023.